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Ornament Panel with Two Children Riding a Nereid
Giovanni Pietro da Birago (The Master of the Sforza Book of Hours) (Italian, active c. 1490 – 1513)
about 1490-1513
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 54.6 × 10 cm (21 1/2 × 3 15/16 in.)(with 6 mm margin at the top, 9 mm at the left, 5 mm at the right, and trimmed within the platemark at the bottom)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP1010
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind (as Master of the Sforza Book of Hours), V, 79, 10(06); Bartsch (as Zoan Andrea) XIII, 308, 26; Illustrated Bartsch ascribes to Giovanni Pietro da Birago (The Master of the Sforza Book of Hours)(see comment under 2509.035)
Marks
Verso, bottom center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Harvey D. Parker Collection (Lugt 1870)
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall, N.Y., date acquired: 1897